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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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Doubted
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With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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